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No one could call the BBC a bastion of philosophical thought, but just recently they’ve gone “deep”. In a few short days, they’ve exemplified Thomas Kuhn’s “change of subject” across a paradigm shift, embraced Tolstoy’s view of history, and applied something like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to whole new realm of supposed indeterminacy. This is not…

The British public have been remarkably reluctant to adopt heat pumps as a means of home heating. Some take this as a sign of British arrogance — they think everyone should take the experts’ word for it. But I think the widespread scepticism is a reassuring reflection of British scientific common sense. I too am…

I wish climate scientists would concentrate on the baleful effects of climate change instead of dishonestly cranking up their certainty that these effects will occur. It’s a discredit to anyone’s epistemic judgement to act out Pascal’s wager like that. Take the following example from today’s World at One: BBC: “It used to be said at…